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Location:

Cottonwood Heights,UT,USA

Member Since:

May 18, 2011

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Personal Records

Aided

5k-17:01 (Halloween Half 2011)

10K-36:06 (Halloween Half 2011)

Half- 1:22 (Halloween Half/Des News/HC 2011/2013)

30k- 2:06:49 (SGM 2013)

Marathon- 3:07:18 (TOU 2011)

Unaided and (some) outdated!

400M- 1:03 (HS 2000)

800M-2:23 (HS 2000)

1500M- 4:45 (USU 2001)

3000M- 10:33 (USU 2001)

3200M- 11:24 (HS 2000)

5k- 18:10 (USU 2001)

10k-39:36 (Classic 2013)

30k- 2:09:16 (WRC 2012)

50 miler- 9:46:43 (TNF 2015)

Short-Term Running Goals:

2019 Tenitive Race Schedule

4/15 Boston Marathon

7/24 Deseret News 10k

Long-Term Running Goals:

I love training with others both on road and trail. I also find benefits of running solo when I need to focus and regroup.

Fun fact: Although I prefer to run outside, I don't mind the treadmill for pace accountability and for the blind assumption that I can run really fast. I have a lot of secret treadmill PR's at 0% incline:)

Personal:

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I am a Mormon

I am married to a supportive and driven husband. Together we enjoy geocaching, hiking, camping, reading and playing games with our three rambunctious children.

Aside from running, I am a homemaker and a Mental Health Therapist. Running has given me the ability to better concert my energies between my family, faith and friends.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00

Tue, Dec 13, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
8.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.00

I finished a long stretch of work leaving me no time to run- well that is not accurate. Rather little motivation to run. However, this morning was not aligned with the stars, but it worked out.

I was supposed to meet with a running group at 6am. My alarm clock said 5:45 so I got ready and headed out the door 10 mins later. I looked at my watch and it read 6:30. It turns out my alarm clock was wrong so missed that run. So I planned on my own route- but before I got anywhere, I had a stomach ache from Hades. That delayed me another 20 minutes...so with time ticking I headed out the door hunched over but still running. 8 ( slightly hunched) miles total.

Nostalgic. It reminded me of my college running days when I delivered my daughter via c-section my Junior year. I felt so much pressure to get out and run again to earn my scholarship back that I began hunched running 9 days postpartum and tore most of my stitches. I was dumb back then. Today no stitches were torn, but likely not any smarter:)

Happy cold running!

Saucony Pro Grid Miles: 8.00

Comments

From Burt on Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 13:11:20 from 174.255.241.7

Gross!

From Tara on Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 14:07:29 from 75.169.144.128

Burt- No, you're gross.

From Burt on Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 14:39:04 from 174.255.241.7

I was coming here to wish you congratulations for the Nike contract, and then, and then, yuck!

From Tara on Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 18:56:43 from 75.169.144.128

No, you're yucky! Okay, let's start over. Hello, I'm Tara.

From Burt on Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 19:41:48 from 174.254.19.178

Hi Tara. I'm Burt. So. How's your womanly stitches doing lately?

From Tara on Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 20:45:44 from 75.169.144.128

Wouldn't you like to know. Sorry, I couldn't resist. I mean, good, they are doing well. So well that I will have to get them surgically worked on in the next few years if you really want to know, but since you didn't...thanks for asking.

From Burt on Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 21:36:46 from 174.254.19.178

That's fantastic. I wish you the best of luck with that.

From JulieC on Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 23:01:54 from 67.41.190.35

That is bad. seriously NOT at all what a postpartum woman should be doing!!! But hey I road my bike 20 miles the day after foot surgery (bunionectomy) so not any smarter than you. But for a baby I would not run. I would sit and hold and hold and hold. : D

From Tara on Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 00:10:11 from 75.169.144.128

Julie- Insane attracts insane right! But you really kinda know about this stuff...not the insane part, but the whole baby, c-section- well you know stuff.

Hi Burt.

From Burt on Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 17:30:42 from 72.223.93.131

Goodbye Tara.

From allie on Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 18:33:18 from 161.38.218.168

hello tara. it's allie. i've been a really terrible blogger lately. but i'm back.

so you've actually ripped yourself open while running? so hard core.

From Kam on Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 15:05:21 from 68.66.163.179

Is there such a thing as happy cold running? I think yes, under certain conditions. It needs to be dark, around 25 degrees with light snow falling as you run through Christmas lit up neighborhoods. During the inversions, there is no happy cold running.

From runningafterbabies on Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 01:12:26 from 71.195.219.247

Csections stink! It took me weeks to recover from it. 9 days. You are very hard core!

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